In this inspiring TEDTalk, Jane McGonical sez that to solve the world’s big problems — hunger, war, environmental devastation and more — we need to be gaming more. Specifically, 21 billion hours of game play every week. Yes, she’s serious!
How this relates to hacking work: Which face do you show the world most often? Your “I’m not good at life” face or your “epic win” face? McGonical insists that through gaming, we learn about the best version of ourselves…The you who is motivated to do something that matters; inspired to collaborate and cooperate; more likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes; more likely to get up after failure and try again. McGonical wants us to train ourselves to bring those qualities back to our 9 to 5 life…back to solving the world’s most wicked problems.
What are you waiting for? Start contributing to that 21 billion hours! And please, bring back what you learn to the World of Warcra… er… the World of Work.
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